[LMB] The worth of Ebook readers

[Francis Turner]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Michael R N Dolbear
<little.egret at mrdolbear.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>  > From: Francis Turner <francis.turner at gmail.com>
>  > Date: 26 April 2008 07:50
>
>  > really is barely different to a newspaper. I can't imagine I going buy
>  > many more paperbacks from now on. Especially since it seems like many
>  > UK publisher are getting on the ebook thang.
>
>  [*]
>
>  Any details of UK publishers offering e-books ?
According to teleread Penguin UK will be offering ebboks in september

http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/11/simultaneous-e-book-versions-of-all-new-black-and-white-penguin-titles-with-epub-in-use-at-consumer-level/

Hopefully bookeen will come out with the Cybook firware update that
can read .epub format although I believe converters are fairly common
>
>  A Google found only a couple, and very meagre offerings too, eg that of
>  Little Brown.
>
>  On the UK/GB topic :-
>  quote ==
>  http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/WEBSITE/WWW/WEBPAGES/viewblogarticle.php?id=
>  956
>
>  Each week, here on Editor's Corner {of bookdepository.co.uk}, I quickly run
>  through the latest issue of the Bookseller magazine and pick out the bits
>  and pieces of book industry news that catch my eye.
>
>  This quick round-up of book stuff is culled from the pages of last Friday's
>  25th April issue:
>
>  e-books continue to shake things up: UK publishers are "up in arms over
>  HarperCollins US' insistence on retaining global digital rights for titles
>  it sells to the UK", Simon & Schuster US are also still refusing to sell
>  e-book rights to the UK ... the wider question that lurks behind all this
>  is, of course, do "territorial rights" any longer make any sense in the
>  internet age?
>
>  Publishers Association c.e.o. Simon Juden "has called on the industry to
>  resolve the problem of differing e-book formats, as the UK readies itself
>  for the imminent launch of two e-book readers"
>  ====
>
>  Anyone know more about either topic ?
>
>  Little Egret
>
>
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